As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery and a political leader in the western states, he won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year.

• 作为奴隶制扩展的一名坦率的对手和一个政治领导在西方国家,1860年他赢取了共和党提名和那年晚些时候被选举了总统。